Climate Emergency

This is based on observations on American news media since I was a child. Growing up in Mexico, we had a somewhat controlled press. It was not overt, but let’s say becoming critical of the ruling party was not precisely the healthiest. So there were a lot of things that…

In September 2021, Swiss company Climeworks opened its first large atmospheric carbon dioxide capture plant, the largest in the world, in Iceland. The idea is exactly what you would imagine: huge fans blowing air through a series of filters and extracting carbon dioxide, then injecting it into porous basaltic soils…

I should start by saying that I’m not a Tesla investor — or maybe I am, I don’t know. My investments have been managed through an index fund for a long time now, not only because it seems to me the best way to get consistent long-term returns (lest we…

The climate emergency is undoubtedly the greatest problem we face. Some uninformed people may play it down or pretend it doesn’t exist, but this is an unparalleled disaster: humanity has modified our planet to the point of making it uninhabitable, and this despite being a species that, like a mold…

Resistance to change has been a constant throughout history, and tends to manifest itself when the pace of change is most acute. Nobody would deny that right now we are in the midst of the most important revolution we have ever faced, marked by the imperative need to get rid…

Gaia is no dummy. She is in the process of shifting from supporting humanity to killing it off. — I’ve never completed writing a book without offering a positive solution. Granted, those are sometimes long shots. Some may even be futile. But we don’t know unless we try and if we don’t try then we make the outcome certain in a negative direction. Just to recap the predicament, in…